My grandfathers uncle was awarded the silver star for killing over 200 German while manning his machine gun during an attack. He told my grandfather in 1930 that he couldn't forget the sight of this one German with his face shorn off by a bullet, the man begged for life as he slowly died in the mud yards in front of my great uncle. Later in 1930 my great uncle commited suicide with a rifle...war
Total war was still raging in Europe in the mid nineties in former Yugoslavia and involving British troops of my acquaintance, so no this is not history contrary to the comment by "hairstyler".
The contribution of two previous generations to our present freedoms and liberties is formidable. All the fatalities recorded in the service of the UK in WW1 and WW2 will find an honourable place on the National War Memorial to be built on Dover’s Western Heights. Perhaps our only guarantee of avoiding a repetition is to educate our youth about the horrendous human cost of 1.7 million lives, See Youtube at watch?v=xiInhoAmFfE .
My great granddad fought in the The Battle of Passchendaele. He was an amo delivery truck driver, escorting amo to the front line. He lived through it which is amazing especially because he most of been such a target with less ways to defend himself if needs be. And I give thanks to his bravery throughout this terrible time. If he was killed I would not be sitting here writing this comment. Thank you, to him! He went through hell so I could have a future!
My great uncle died on 13 October, 1917 at Passchendaele after being in Belgium for less than two months. A 34 year-old single man, a clerk from a tiny country town in Australia. What was he doing there, for God's sake? Because his remains were never found, he is memorialised on the Menin Gate Memorial. Lest we forget.
@Master666555, most the soldiers during both the world wars (no matter which side or country they were from) were just doing there jobs, can't blame them for that.
FUCKING GERMANS FOLT FOR WANTING A EMPIRE LIKE GREATBRITAIN THEY COULD NEVER BEEN LIKE THE GREAT NATION IT IS IT ALWAYS WILL AMERICA ENGLAND ALLIES FOREVER WILL FUCK ANY COUNTRY UP WHO THREATS EUROPE ASIA ON THE ENGLISH COMMONWEALTH ENGLAND AMERICA CANANDA AUSTRALIER THEY ARE ENGLISH COUSINS AND WILL ALWAYS READY TO HELP THE MOTHER LAND WHEN IN DANGER
@OGZxH4CKZOR1 Hmm think you have some problems. We were as much at fault for ww1 as anyone. I would also not go around saying how amazing England and its' military history is as Spain and France over history were the greatest European powers, we just convieniently have always had a little bit of water protecting us.
This is a very moving video, I hope very dearly that we don't let videos and articles and knowledge like this go to waste. The best way to honor these men is to remember them and never let this happen again. Then not only will we give honor and respect to their sacrifice but ourselves and each other as well.
The clip at 0:50 of the Germans struggling to free a French soldier stuck in muddy shellhole is particularly moving. All that effort to kill each other, yet here's a group trying to save their enemies life.
Kind of sad to think that most of them guys wernt soldiers they wer farmers and wer tought only basics about fightn a lot of them couldn't fight to. I think Im correct on this
@thebigman15200 My apologies I didnt notice that..but ya it would be a better a world i meant if Hitler died what would have happend...would there still have been a war??that kind of way....and ya history is how we learn not to make the same mistakes
@DidYouPush2Hard, You don't have to apologize, I would just suggest that you read everything before commenting (then again, I'm just as guilty for doing the same thing in my first comment any way). Although, it seems you have exactly my point. Perhaps I should remove my first comment considering how controversial it was...
@thebigman15200...your comment is your comment do with it what you like and your right I probably should read everything before commenting haha I just get caught up in the moment I find war interesting and moving and like to share my opinions with other people
@DidYouPush2Hard: I'm glad that you like sharing your opinions with people, and I also find war interesting and moving, and that's probably why I forgot that Hitler served in the trenches. There is nothing wrong with getting caught up in the moment either! Keep on stating your opinion!
@thebigman15200 Im not defending Hitler in any way here, he was FUCKED UP, but he did know what war was like in the trenches because he served during the great war and that iron cross in all those old war videos you see him in was won during WW1 because he was a runner(I think)...so he did know life in the trenches first hand...other than that I totally agree with you...............but what if HITLER DIED in WW1..what would the world be like and had been like??
@DidYouPush2Hard May I explain for the last time... read the comments below to find that I have been corrected twice. What would the world be like without Hitler? A MUCH BETTER ONE. Although, and I'm not defending Hitler in anyway either, because your description is VERY TRUE, he let us learn NOT to do STUPID THINGS LIKE HE DID again. History is how you learn, and I HOPE that people learned something after he did that to an innocent people.
True men is right Snowboardskater1. also, i agree with what trollkors78 has to say. if hitler, stalin, churchill, and all of the other politicians in times of war went and sat in a trench, wars wouldn't exist. to them it was probably entertainment and false hatred. if they don't know what the people are going through, they won't do anything to stop it, they'll just send more.
The only flaw in that logic ' thebigman ' is Hitler served 4 years in the trenches during WW1 . He knew first hand what war was and still wanted more of it .
@thebigman15200 i agree with what you are trying to say but mate , hitler took part in world war 1 and was gassed in a trench..... he got sent home and wanted revenge.
Exactly true... I remembered this after ComradeAgopian reminded me below... thank you for trying to set me straight though. I guess that Hitler was sick enough to want to make more men go through what he went through...
Fuck the politicians. The people, who could be friends and talk together above a table with wine, cigarettes and cards, killed each other because of their stupid leaders. The politicians make wars, but the cannon fodder are ordinary people. Politicians never go to war...
LeTsGoOGleN0w, dude, what about Canada man? Expecially in WWI, I mean it was Canada that took Passchendaele after all, and Vimy Ridge. Give a ruler American technology, British generals, and Canadian soldiers and he will win you any war.- Winston Churchill quote
Give German technology, German generals and German soldiers to a ruler who for once doesn't think it's reasonable to attack all the rest of Europe and ... hell would we have thrived ... :,-(
Churchill also called for the largely tank-less armies in France to perform 'furious, unrelenting assault' on the invading panzers. Personally, I think the man just never shut up; something witty was bound to come out eventually.
I strongly agree with u spaceman1979, but this is Germany we are talking about. And as we all know they listened to imbeciles I am referring to Adolf Hitler who led the whole world to destruction. But as always, Britain, America and Russia pulled through thick and thin to prevent anymore damage being done. And it took people 6 years to realise Hitler was not the man he said he was. A Great and Noble leader, this he was not.
I´m not getting into Hitler. That was a completely different situation which I believe resulted from unfinished business and fury of this war the great war.
having just gone & paid my respects to various relatives that i never met, looking at the terrain and thinking about the technology they had at the time, what would/could we do differently either as a commander or a private - 1 side wanted to bring the benelux countries into their sphere, the other wanted their land back. So, war was inevitable. How "should" it have been fought? I am not a military expert, nor a schoolmaster (!), but I am uncertain as to what could have been different.
Can you imagine 800 million shells fired by both sides during WW I. A stalemate on the western front for four years with military leaders believing that if they try the same tatics-a little differently each time-success would come. What insanity! The war to end all wars, instead, was an exercise for obstinate and privileged military commanders, who used men as cannon fodder. After the war, the five highest levels in the military heirachy should have been hauled off and shot for incompetence.
I had a great uncle whom fought in the russian Navy during World war one and he feel down some stairs and a shell went off and blew off his legs. he spent the rest of life in a VA Hospital in New York till he died.
@hairstyleriioohhh I wish I shared your confidence about the future. It seems that there was quite a bit of killing in the balkans only a few short years ago though.
"De nos mains qui chancellent, nous vous confions/ Le flambeau qui sera le vôtre et que vous tiendrez haut/ Si vous ne coyez plus en nous qui mourront/ Les coquelicots se faneront et jamais nous ne trouverons le repos dans les champs des Flandres/ Où fleurissent les coquelicots" John McCrea, MD in "Punch" 1915,médecin, tombé en 1917. Ne Les oublions jamais!
It's really an incredible story of the carnage of war. If you want the whole tale, check out the book PASSCHENDAELE: CANADA'S TRIUMPH AND TRAGEDY ON THE FIELDS OF FLANDERS, by Norman Leach, the guy who was the historical consultant on the Paul Gross movie.
My grandfathers uncle was awarded the silver star for killing over 200 German while manning his machine gun during an attack. He told my grandfather in 1930 that he couldn't forget the sight of this one German with his face shorn off by a bullet, the man begged for life as he slowly died in the mud yards in front of my great uncle. Later in 1930 my great uncle commited suicide with a rifle...war
MegaSteelers7 1 week ago
My great uncle also died at Passchendaele on October 21, 1917. He was from a small town in Ontario, Canada. He was 27 years old.
clam5103 1 month ago
some of the bloodyest battles of ww1 where fought in Belgium, It makes me proud that i'm belgian .
Let's not forget all the british,canadian,australian, Etc. and of course the belgian troops who died in belgium !! let there never be war !!
adidam1706 1 month ago
Total war was still raging in Europe in the mid nineties in former Yugoslavia and involving British troops of my acquaintance, so no this is not history contrary to the comment by "hairstyler".
1599maybole 3 months ago
So much for the love of God...
spock101010 3 months ago
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The contribution of two previous generations to our present freedoms and liberties is formidable. All the fatalities recorded in the service of the UK in WW1 and WW2 will find an honourable place on the National War Memorial to be built on Dover’s Western Heights. Perhaps our only guarantee of avoiding a repetition is to educate our youth about the horrendous human cost of 1.7 million lives, See Youtube at watch?v=xiInhoAmFfE .
NationalWarMemorial 3 months ago in playlist World War 1
in the history those where real men - now the bullet follow the target and just on shot
desfa000 7 months ago
merci beaucoup CANADIAN!!!!
augenauf666 9 months ago
My great granddad fought in the The Battle of Passchendaele. He was an amo delivery truck driver, escorting amo to the front line. He lived through it which is amazing especially because he most of been such a target with less ways to defend himself if needs be. And I give thanks to his bravery throughout this terrible time. If he was killed I would not be sitting here writing this comment. Thank you, to him! He went through hell so I could have a future!
Janimatorck 11 months ago
My great uncle died on 13 October, 1917 at Passchendaele after being in Belgium for less than two months. A 34 year-old single man, a clerk from a tiny country town in Australia. What was he doing there, for God's sake? Because his remains were never found, he is memorialised on the Menin Gate Memorial. Lest we forget.
jante214 1 year ago 8
@jante214 i found a uniform helmet and some pieces of skull between the leaves ):
desfa000 7 months ago
Lions led by donkys
helstontvx 1 year ago
“I died in hell – (They called it Passchendaele)”
- Line from Memorial Tablet, poem by Lieutenant Siegfried Sassoon, Royal Welch Fusiliers, November 1918.
nealtracy 1 year ago
Emotional images.
Can't believe how passchendaele looked and what horror it was.
I still live in passendale and the war is not forgotten
ditn 1 year ago 2
Well.. we germans are always guilty of everything or what do the"allies" think today?
Master666555 1 year ago
@Master666555, most the soldiers during both the world wars (no matter which side or country they were from) were just doing there jobs, can't blame them for that.
mdude009 11 months ago
OGZxH4CKZOR1 1 year ago
@OGZxH4CKZOR1 Hmm think you have some problems. We were as much at fault for ww1 as anyone. I would also not go around saying how amazing England and its' military history is as Spain and France over history were the greatest European powers, we just convieniently have always had a little bit of water protecting us.
OWTS1885 1 year ago
This is a very moving video, I hope very dearly that we don't let videos and articles and knowledge like this go to waste. The best way to honor these men is to remember them and never let this happen again. Then not only will we give honor and respect to their sacrifice but ourselves and each other as well.
Doublejoe321 1 year ago
my uncle was there
bruntje1 1 year ago
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Unfortunately, the geographic layout of Europe speaks one thing.
If the Germans and French are not happy, Belgium becomes their battlefield.
RangerGhost 1 year ago
I found that very moving - Thank you for posting it. x
emma5977 1 year ago
i love army boys
btwymmwgr 1 year ago
This was, like pretty much all wars was a pointless load of shit
Seano71 1 year ago
@Seano71 Hey what about the American civil war, ending slavery in USA
86coffeemaker 1 year ago
The clip at 0:50 of the Germans struggling to free a French soldier stuck in muddy shellhole is particularly moving. All that effort to kill each other, yet here's a group trying to save their enemies life.
Kauwhaka 1 year ago 2
Kind of sad to think that most of them guys wernt soldiers they wer farmers and wer tought only basics about fightn a lot of them couldn't fight to. I think Im correct on this
Explosivecork 1 year ago
@thebigman15200..I shall my friend and I hope that you keep stating yours as well.
DidYouPush2Hard 2 years ago
@thebigman15200 My apologies I didnt notice that..but ya it would be a better a world i meant if Hitler died what would have happend...would there still have been a war??that kind of way....and ya history is how we learn not to make the same mistakes
DidYouPush2Hard 2 years ago
@DidYouPush2Hard, You don't have to apologize, I would just suggest that you read everything before commenting (then again, I'm just as guilty for doing the same thing in my first comment any way). Although, it seems you have exactly my point. Perhaps I should remove my first comment considering how controversial it was...
thebigman15200 2 years ago
@thebigman15200...your comment is your comment do with it what you like and your right I probably should read everything before commenting haha I just get caught up in the moment I find war interesting and moving and like to share my opinions with other people
DidYouPush2Hard 2 years ago
@DidYouPush2Hard: I'm glad that you like sharing your opinions with people, and I also find war interesting and moving, and that's probably why I forgot that Hitler served in the trenches. There is nothing wrong with getting caught up in the moment either! Keep on stating your opinion!
thebigman15200 2 years ago
@thebigman15200 Im not defending Hitler in any way here, he was FUCKED UP, but he did know what war was like in the trenches because he served during the great war and that iron cross in all those old war videos you see him in was won during WW1 because he was a runner(I think)...so he did know life in the trenches first hand...other than that I totally agree with you...............but what if HITLER DIED in WW1..what would the world be like and had been like??
DidYouPush2Hard 2 years ago
Hilter was a runner in W.W. I
and was temporarily blinded after a gas attack.
bender0502 2 years ago
@DidYouPush2Hard May I explain for the last time... read the comments below to find that I have been corrected twice. What would the world be like without Hitler? A MUCH BETTER ONE. Although, and I'm not defending Hitler in anyway either, because your description is VERY TRUE, he let us learn NOT to do STUPID THINGS LIKE HE DID again. History is how you learn, and I HOPE that people learned something after he did that to an innocent people.
thebigman15200 2 years ago
The music is beautiful, what is it?
shamyscool 2 years ago
absolutely fascinating......i could wach this shit for a month straight...with piss breaks of course...Cheers!
hockeydudeluv 2 years ago 2
True men is right Snowboardskater1. also, i agree with what trollkors78 has to say. if hitler, stalin, churchill, and all of the other politicians in times of war went and sat in a trench, wars wouldn't exist. to them it was probably entertainment and false hatred. if they don't know what the people are going through, they won't do anything to stop it, they'll just send more.
thebigman15200 2 years ago
The only flaw in that logic ' thebigman ' is Hitler served 4 years in the trenches during WW1 . He knew first hand what war was and still wanted more of it .
ComradeAgopian 2 years ago
@thebigman15200 i agree with what you are trying to say but mate , hitler took part in world war 1 and was gassed in a trench..... he got sent home and wanted revenge.
schooly11 2 years ago
Exactly true... I remembered this after ComradeAgopian reminded me below... thank you for trying to set me straight though. I guess that Hitler was sick enough to want to make more men go through what he went through...
thebigman15200 2 years ago
Those are true men
Snowboardskater1 2 years ago
Fuck the politicians. The people, who could be friends and talk together above a table with wine, cigarettes and cards, killed each other because of their stupid leaders. The politicians make wars, but the cannon fodder are ordinary people. Politicians never go to war...
trollkors78 2 years ago 9
Very fine comment on war.
We share the same opinion.
joghyjobie 2 years ago
R.I.P For thoose soilders who died in World war 2 and world war 1 who gived their life for us. so Rest In Piece soldiers
axeppo 2 years ago
The irish fought because they had no other choice and hoping they would get their independence
irishwemo 2 years ago
toon die respect
deutzfarhfan123 2 years ago
Canadians pwn Americans
ariadarabi 2 years ago
rip kiwi soldiers who gave there lives at Passchendaele
mantis2334 2 years ago
LeTsGoOGleN0w, dude, what about Canada man? Expecially in WWI, I mean it was Canada that took Passchendaele after all, and Vimy Ridge. Give a ruler American technology, British generals, and Canadian soldiers and he will win you any war.- Winston Churchill quote
firecapsule 2 years ago 2
TRUE DAT
Stupidfaes 2 years ago
Give German technology, German generals and German soldiers to a ruler who for once doesn't think it's reasonable to attack all the rest of Europe and ... hell would we have thrived ... :,-(
lilbrothaaa 2 years ago
Churchill also called for the largely tank-less armies in France to perform 'furious, unrelenting assault' on the invading panzers. Personally, I think the man just never shut up; something witty was bound to come out eventually.
davidhier 2 years ago
first i want to say my english is not the best :-P
but...
poor men, all fighting for the big lord... and the army with the most soldiers wins... war was and still is pointless.
antiwarkid96 2 years ago
war does suck. but (not all) wars are pointless. World War 1 happened to be pointless.
doomedelk 2 years ago 2
Poor buggers. All because of wankers like the Hapsburgs and Wilhelm II wanting to rule the world.
I hope the good of this was that we learned not to listen to imbeciles like them anymore.
spaceman1979 2 years ago 2
I strongly agree with u spaceman1979, but this is Germany we are talking about. And as we all know they listened to imbeciles I am referring to Adolf Hitler who led the whole world to destruction. But as always, Britain, America and Russia pulled through thick and thin to prevent anymore damage being done. And it took people 6 years to realise Hitler was not the man he said he was. A Great and Noble leader, this he was not.
LeTsGoOGleN0w 2 years ago
I´m not getting into Hitler. That was a completely different situation which I believe resulted from unfinished business and fury of this war the great war.
spaceman1979 2 years ago
having just gone & paid my respects to various relatives that i never met, looking at the terrain and thinking about the technology they had at the time, what would/could we do differently either as a commander or a private - 1 side wanted to bring the benelux countries into their sphere, the other wanted their land back. So, war was inevitable. How "should" it have been fought? I am not a military expert, nor a schoolmaster (!), but I am uncertain as to what could have been different.
buggertheusername 2 years ago 2
i agree mate... i have just returned from there... really shook me up...
salstream 2 years ago
Can you imagine 800 million shells fired by both sides during WW I. A stalemate on the western front for four years with military leaders believing that if they try the same tatics-a little differently each time-success would come. What insanity! The war to end all wars, instead, was an exercise for obstinate and privileged military commanders, who used men as cannon fodder. After the war, the five highest levels in the military heirachy should have been hauled off and shot for incompetence.
mpturcotte 2 years ago 2
trés belle video , trés emouvent
n'oubliez jamais ce qui c'est passé en europe.
mercenaire02 2 years ago
My Family fought for the Austro-Hungarian army
Wehategod 3 years ago
so did mine, and one died in russia
mataimr 2 years ago
I had a great uncle whom fought in the russian Navy during World war one and he feel down some stairs and a shell went off and blew off his legs. he spent the rest of life in a VA Hospital in New York till he died.
Wehategod 2 years ago
My family fought in the pacific
kligion 2 years ago
its good that shit like this is history in europe... we shouldn´t kill each other again ever!
hairstyleriioohhh 3 years ago 15
exactly, i mean, we are all humans, why kill each other?
thebigdille 3 years ago
you have common sense. unfortunately leaders at the time did not see that
bongoboy8 2 years ago
@hairstyleriioohhh
Unfortunately, the geographic layout of Europe speaks one thing.
If the Germans and French are not happy, Belgium becomes their battlefield.
RangerGhost 1 year ago
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@hairstyleriioohhh
Unfortunately, the geographic layout of Europe speaks one thing.
If the Germans and French are not happy, Belgium becomes their battlefield.
RangerGhost 1 year ago
@hairstyleriioohhh The day will come when all of this is forgotten.... :(
Airsoftrisupetteri 1 year ago
@hairstyleriioohhh I wish I shared your confidence about the future. It seems that there was quite a bit of killing in the balkans only a few short years ago though.
FAHayek89 1 year ago
@hairstyleriioohhh As much as everyone would like that, it would never happen. :l. So much money, manpower, and technology, is wasted in wars.
alphamale442 1 year ago
@hairstyleriioohhh
in 1918 people talked almost the same... and look what happened on 1th September 1939...
Haregar 1 year ago
@hairstyleriioohhh and yet we do.
Suffiest 10 months ago
@hairstyleriioohhh hmm you are a bit off on your comment.. we still are doing this to each other
liamgrech1 6 months ago
@liamgrech1
Not only that.
We are even better at it today.
northerbrewer 3 months ago
@hairstyleriioohhh u think it's funny
ELSKYO 2 months ago
@hairstyleriioohhh so if you had a grandfather who died here in europe u find your grandfather shit
ELSKYO 2 months ago
My great granddad fought there and was shot 3 times in his army he was a brave man and i am very proud of him
jinpoi 3 years ago 24
In Flanders fields
"De nos mains qui chancellent, nous vous confions/ Le flambeau qui sera le vôtre et que vous tiendrez haut/ Si vous ne coyez plus en nous qui mourront/ Les coquelicots se faneront et jamais nous ne trouverons le repos dans les champs des Flandres/ Où fleurissent les coquelicots" John McCrea, MD in "Punch" 1915,médecin, tombé en 1917. Ne Les oublions jamais!
ANTOONMAKA 3 years ago 3
Remember the ones that didn't come home and the ones that did.
Mynamesuckstoo 3 years ago 3
One of my greatgrandpa's fought at Passchendaele and vimy ridge
JohnRobsonArms 3 years ago 5
That amazing. You should be very proud
Mynamesuckstoo 3 years ago 5
It's really an incredible story of the carnage of war. If you want the whole tale, check out the book PASSCHENDAELE: CANADA'S TRIUMPH AND TRAGEDY ON THE FIELDS OF FLANDERS, by Norman Leach, the guy who was the historical consultant on the Paul Gross movie.
niklb 3 years ago